Sampled at Zythos Beer Festival 2018. Dark clear maroon brown color tan head. Aroma of licorice and dark chocolate. Taste is burnt fruity coffee rough mouthfeel.

28/04/2018 – 10cl glass shared with an international ratebeer crew @ZBF2018 Black colour, small tanned head. Nose is roast, dark chocolate, booze. Taste is boozy, roast, chocolate.

Intensiver, malzig röstiger Beginn. Würzig, leicht herb, etwas Schokolade, wenig Alkohol. Süffig, helle Holznoten, trockener Nachhall. 12/11/11/11//11

F: thin, tan, not long lasting. C: dark, opaque. A: light roasted tones, tequila boozy, dark fruity, bit caramel, bit sweet cherries. T: dark malts, fruity, warming alcohol, bit caramel, bit chocolate, bit roasted tones, not so complex but still enjoyable, medium to full body, lower carbonation, sample draft shared with Germany and BE RB crew @ ZBF 2018.

29 April 2018, at Zythos Bierfestival. Deputy Taster: Anke. Thanks to the assistants at the stand for the sample!
Cloudy black with a lasting, small, foamy, beige head. Intense aroma of ripe apple, tequila, sharp calvados or bourbon, candied dark fruits, roasted malt, caramel. It tastes medium malty & chocolatey sweet and light to medium fruity sour, slightly toasty & nutty in the back. Bit woody & roasted in the peppery hop finish, but dominated by sharpish bourbon/tequila alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Okay so far, needs some refinement and less sharp alcohol.

Thank you for sharing RB People! Sampled draft @ ZBF 2018. Black, tanned head. Nose is harsh liquorice molasses, boozy, too varnish harsh alcoholic & burned bread malts. Taste is too harsh plastic, cured all raw booze, plastic, burned malt, burned bread, roast. Too much & way too much harsh alcohol, Duvel seems to have a weird idea of what makes BA beers appealing.

Tequila barrel aged beer - I'm guessing the very first one in Belgium - tasted at Zythos Bierfestival. Loose, quickly opening, tan head, black robe with hazy mahogany brown edges. Aroma breathes a lot of pure tequila, spicy and very boozy with a raw green agave juice-like effect, brutally overpowering softer notes of chocolate sauce, butterscotch, toffee, chicory, raisins, candied figs; very prominent solventy effects as well (fresh paint, wood glue). Sweet onset, candied dates, soft carb, full oily mouthfeel but still somehow lacking a bit in body, especially against the huge amount of agressive booze which quickly shows up and heat the rest of the palate; tequila flavour is way too harsh here and so are the glueish solvents, overwhelming the gentle, toffeeish and nutty malt quality. Not much roasted bitterness either so the basic beer - see its own entry here - is already a bit thin and simple for an imperial stout; here it is drowned in way too much booze. Needs a lot more refinement, though I can somehow appreciate the fact that a traditional family brewery like Moortgat has the guts to do something like this.

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A almost black beer with a small off-white head. Aroma of strong dark red fruits, caramel, wood, some liquorice. Taste of Coffee, dark strong malt, red fruits.